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Major Joseph Croshaw (c. 1610-12–1667) was a planter living near Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia. He was the son of Captain Raleigh Croshaw . He became a planter and lived a few miles from present-day Williamsburg, Virginia .
The couple had three children: Elizabeth Yeardley was listed as age 6 in the February 1624 Jamestown Muster, so was born about 1618, [15] James City, Virginia, Died: ~1660-1666, Bruton Parish, York County, Virginia, Inherited 1/3 of Mother's Estate: Flowerdew Hundred Plantation; Some claim she married Major Joseph Croshaw. However, there has ...
Again, it was Joseph Croshaw and Richard Croshaw who were the first to move into the area. In 1637 and 1638, they each patented a few thousand acres about where the Camp Peary government center is located today. They controlled most of the land in that area for the next 20–25 years.
By 1664, West married Unity Croshaw, daughter of Major Joseph Croshaw of York, member of the House of Burgesses. The children of Colonel John and Unity Croshaw were: [7] John West III; married Judith Armistead. Nathaniel West, married, as her second husband, Martha Woodard, widow of Gideon Macon and grandmother of Martha Washington.
Unity Croshaw was a colonist of British Colonial Virginia, the first surviving European colony in North America. Born in the colony, she was the daughter of Major Joseph Croshaw , and a granddaughter of Raleigh Croshaw , who came to the Colony of Virginia in 1608 with the Second Supply to Jamestown . [ 1 ]
Charles West served in the 3rd Virginia Regiment with the rank of major from February 1, 1777 to July 6, 1778. May 29, 1780, Charles was in the Waxhaw Massacre, and later vouched that John King lost both arms in that battle.
Croshaw is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 1983), British comedic writer, video game journalist, humorist, author, and video game developer; Christine Croshaw (born 1942), British pianist and music teacher; Glenn R. Croshaw (1950–2021), American politician and judge
William Farrar was born before April 28, 1583, [2] the date of his christening, in Croxton, Lincolnshire, England. [3] He was the 3rd son of John Farrar of Croxton [1] and London, Esquire, a wealthy merchant and landowner with various holdings in West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Hertfordshire, [4] and Cecily Kelke, an heiress [5] and direct descendant of Edward III of England. [6]